I built a house on weekends. The bathroom ceiling was unfinished and still open to the vaulted ceiling. It acted like a megaphone for any noise in the bathroom. When a guest took a dump, everyone heard each little squeak and plop.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps